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Capture

I think of this section in the essay most when I feel that urge to ‘capture’ – ie what I call the response to beauty that we all have to somehow press pause, bottle what we are in awe of in the hope of then being able to sip it very slowly like an aged, 50-year old single malt – to more slowly savour what we faintly taste.

Fitness Blender and Injury Fix

If you love your exercise and would benefit from some low-cost and free resources to help you in this new season, here are a couple of paragraphs plugging two of the best resources that I have discovered in in the last 15 years working within exercise and health.

The Presence Project Intro

A short 4 min video introducing The Presence Project recorded at Peak Studios in July 2013.

Where Our Help Comes From

Where Our Help Comes From

Pure Potential

Heaven Is My Home

Picnics and Photography

Here are a few of my favourites from our Picnics and Photography holiday in Scotland

Bikinis, Lads’ Mags and Troll-Hunting

While all of this was unfolding, I was involved in a twitter debate regarding the campaign to ban ‘lad’s mag’s’ and to reform the modesty of them given their sexualised genre. As part of the discussion on Twitter (with an individual who was subsequently named and shamed on Sky TV as a Troll)…

When In Rome

I’m always interested in stuff that people are ridiculously excited and passionate about, even if I don’t (currently) share their affections . I kind of feel like I’m missing out somehow – except when it comes to mushrooms – they are heinous little things that grown in dark, damp places and really should just remain there.

Nearing Nephology

In that moment I had to slow down, concentrate, listen more carefully (for traffic on the road) and have much more respect for my surroundings that had now over-shadowed me. The normal bias of my senses had chnaged – I was now relying not so much on what I could see, but what I could hear